SB3707eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 25 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/25) (from Ch. 127, par. 161)

Sec. 25. Fiscal year limitations.

(a) All appropriations shall be available for expenditure for the fiscal year or for a lesser period if the Act making that appropriation so specifies. A deficiency or emergency appropriation shall be available for expenditure only through June 30 of the year when the Act making that appropriation is enacted unless that Act otherwise provides.

(b) Outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from appropriations which have otherwise expired, may be paid out of the expiring appropriations during the 2-month period ending at the close of business on August 31. Any service involving professional or artistic skills or any personal services by an employee whose compensation is subject to income tax withholding must be performed as of June 30 of the fiscal year in order to be considered an "outstanding liability as of June 30" that is thereby eligible for payment out of the expiring appropriation.

However, payment of tuition reimbursement claims under Section 14-7.03 or 18-3 of the School Code may be made by the State Board of Education from its appropriations for those respective purposes for any fiscal year, even though the claims reimbursed by the payment may be claims attributable to a prior fiscal year, and payments may be made at the direction of the State Superintendent of Education from the fund from which the appropriation is made without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

Medical payments may be made by the Department of Veterans' Affairs from its appropriations for those purposes for any fiscal year, without regard to the fact that the medical services being compensated for by such payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.

Medical payments may be made by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and medical payments and child care payments may be made by the Department of Human Services (as successor to the Department of Public Aid) from appropriations for those purposes for any fiscal year, without regard to the fact that the medical or child care services being compensated for by such payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year; and payments may be made at the direction of the Department of Central Management Services from the Health Insurance Reserve Fund and the Local Government Health Insurance Reserve Fund without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

Medical payments may be made by the Department of Human Services from its appropriations relating to substance abuse treatment services for any fiscal year, without regard to the fact that the medical services being compensated for by such payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year, provided the payments are made on a fee-for-service basis consistent with requirements established for Medicaid reimbursement by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

Additionally, payments may be made by the Department of Human Services from its appropriations, or any other State agency from its appropriations with the approval of the Department of Human Services, from the Immigration Reform and Control Fund for purposes authorized pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

Further, with respect to costs incurred in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 only, payments may be made by the State Treasurer from its appropriations from the Capital Litigation Trust Fund without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

Lease payments may be made by the Department of Central Management Services under the sale and leaseback provisions of Section 7.4 of the State Property Control Act with respect to the James R. Thompson Center and the Elgin Mental Health Center and surrounding land from appropriations for that purpose without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

Lease payments may be made under the sale and leaseback provisions of Section 7.5 of the State Property Control Act with respect to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority headquarters building and surrounding land without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

(c) Further, payments may be made by the Department of Public Health and the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the Department of Public Health under the Department of Human Services Act) from their respective appropriations for grants for medical care to or on behalf of persons suffering from chronic renal disease, persons suffering from hemophilia, rape victims, and premature and high-mortality risk infants and their mothers and for grants for supplemental food supplies provided under the United States Department of Agriculture Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program, for any fiscal year without regard to the fact that the services being compensated for by such payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.

(c-1) For all medical payments, as described in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section, outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from appropriations that have otherwise expired, may be paid out of the expiring appropriations during the 4-month period ending at the close of business on October 31.

(c-2) All outstanding liabilities for medical payments incurred during a previous fiscal year, not payable during the 4-month lapse period as described in subsection (c-1), are limited to an aggregate amount of payments totaling no more than as follows for the fiscal year beginning July 1 as follows: 2010, $1,080,000,000; 2011, $960,000,000; 2012, $840,000,000; 2013, $720,000,000; 2014, $600,000,000; 2015, $480,000,000; 2016, $360,000,000; 2017, $240,000,000; and 2018, $120,000,000.

(c-3) Beginning on July 1, 2019, all outstanding liabilities for medical payments, not payable during the 4-month lapse period as described in subsection (c-1), that are made from appropriations for that purpose for any fiscal year, without regard to the fact that the medical care services being compensated for by those payments may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year, are limited to only those claims that have been incurred but the claim therefor not received.

(d) The Department of Public Health and the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the Department of Public Health under the Department of Human Services Act) shall each annually submit to the State Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, and the respective Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, on or before December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to pay for services provided in any prior fiscal year. This report shall document by program or service category those expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal year used to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.

(e) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the Department of Public Aid), and the Department of Human Services making fee-for-service payments relating to substance abuse treatment services provided during a previous fiscal year shall each annually submit to the State Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, the respective Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, on or before November 30, a report that shall document by program or service category those expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal year used to pay for (i) services provided in prior fiscal years and (ii) services for which claims were received in prior fiscal years.

(f) The Department of Human Services (as successor to the Department of Public Aid) shall annually submit to the State Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, and the respective Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, on or before December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to pay for services (other than medical care) provided in any prior fiscal year. This report shall document by program or service category those expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal year used to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.

(g) In addition, each annual report required to be submitted by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services under subsection (e) shall include the following information with respect to the State's Medicaid program:

(1) Explanations of the exact causes of the variance between the previous year's estimated and actual liabilities.

(2) Factors affecting the Department of Healthcare and Family Services' liabilities, including but not limited to numbers of aid recipients, levels of medical service utilization by aid recipients, and inflation in the cost of medical services.

(3) The results of the Department's efforts to combat fraud and abuse.

(h) As provided in Section 4 of the General Assembly Compensation Act, any utility bill for service provided to a General Assembly member's district office for a period including portions of 2 consecutive fiscal years may be paid from funds appropriated for such expenditure in either fiscal year.

(i) An agency which administers a fund classified by the Comptroller as an internal service fund may issue rules for:

(1) billing user agencies in advance for payments or authorized inter-fund transfers based on estimated charges for goods or services;

(2) issuing credits, refunding through inter-fund transfers, or reducing future inter-fund transfers during the subsequent fiscal year for all user agency payments or authorized inter-fund transfers received during the prior fiscal year which were in excess of the final amounts owed by the user agency for that period; and

(3) issuing catch-up billings to user agencies during the subsequent fiscal year for amounts remaining due when payments or authorized inter-fund transfers received from the user agency during the prior fiscal year were less than the total amount owed for that period.

User agencies are authorized to reimburse internal service funds for catch-up billings by vouchers drawn against their respective appropriations for the fiscal year in which the catch-up billing was issued or by increasing an authorized inter-fund transfer during the current fiscal year. For the purposes of this Act, "inter-fund transfers" means transfers without the use of the voucher-warrant process, as authorized by Section 9.01 of the State Comptroller Act.

(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

Section 10. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by changing Section 5-16 as follows:

(305 ILCS 5/5-16) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-16)

Sec. 5-16. Managed Care. The Illinois Department may develop and implement a Primary Care Sponsor System consistent with the provisions of this Section. The purpose of this managed care delivery system shall be to contain the costs of providing medical care to Medicaid recipients by having one provider responsible for managing all aspects of a recipient's medical care. This managed care system shall have the following characteristics:

(a) The Department, by rule, shall establish criteria to determine which clients must participate in this program;

(b) Providers participating in the program may be paid an amount per patient per month, to be set by the Illinois Department, for managing each recipient's medical care;

(c) Providers eligible to participate in the program shall be physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, and the Illinois Department may terminate a provider's participation if the provider is determined to have failed to comply with any applicable program standard or procedure established by the Illinois Department;

(d) Each recipient required to participate in the program must select from a panel of primary care providers or networks established by the Department in their communities;

(e) A recipient may change his designated primary care provider:

(1) when the designated source becomes unavailable, as the Illinois Department shall determine by rule; or

(2) when the designated primary care provider notifies the Illinois Department that it wishes to withdraw from any obligation as primary care provider; or

(3) in other situations, as the Illinois Department shall provide by rule;

(f) The Illinois Department shall, by rule, establish procedures for providing medical services when the designated source becomes unavailable or wishes to withdraw from any obligation as primary care provider taking into consideration the need for emergency or temporary medical assistance and ensuring that the recipient has continuous and unrestricted access to medical care from the date on which such unavailability or withdrawal becomes effective until such time as the recipient designates a primary care source;

(g) Only medical care services authorized by a recipient's designated provider, except for emergency services, services performed by a provider that is owned or operated by a county and that provides non-emergency services without regard to ability to pay and such other services as provided by the Illinois Department, shall be subject to payment by the Illinois Department. The Illinois Department shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement with each county that owns or operates such a provider to develop and implement policies to minimize the provision of medical care services provided by county owned or operated providers pursuant to the foregoing exception.

The Illinois Department shall seek and obtain necessary authorization provided under federal law to implement such a program including the waiver of any federal regulations.

At least 75% of all enrollees receiving full medical assistance benefits under any program operated by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall be enrolled in some form of managed care as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly.

The Illinois Department may implement the amendatory changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act of 1991 through the use of emergency rules in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.02 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. For purposes of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the adoption of rules to implement the amendatory changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act of 1991 shall be deemed an emergency and necessary for the public interest, safety and welfare.

The Illinois Department may establish a managed care system demonstration program, on a limited basis, as described in this Section. The demonstration program shall terminate on June 30, 1997. Within 30 days after the end of each year of the demonstration program's operation, the Illinois Department shall report to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning the operation of the demonstration program.

(Source: P.A. 87-14; 88-490.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2010.